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Managua, Nicaragua, August 28th, 2008. The Nicaragua Poverty Assessment (PA) is a basic diagnostic study prepared periodically by the World Bank to assess the situation of poverty in the country and recent trends, analyze the impact of growth and public actions on poverty, and review monitoring systems and evaluation. This report is designed to provide a timely reference to draw attention to the most important challenges of reducing poverty in Nicaragua and to help identify various opportunities to enhance the impact of public actions on poverty. The report focuses on the most effective interventions to reduce poverty, finding ways to accelerate the growth and spread the impact of growth more evenly among the population through increased efficiency of public programs targeting the poor, improving basic infrastructure, In particular water supply, sanitation, rural roads and electricity in order to directly improve the welfare of the poor; improve their productivity, improve basic health, nutrition, as well as the coverage and quality of educational services in order to improve the productivity of the workforce, focusing on programs that directly affect productivity growth, credit, implementation of networks and associations, land titling and land markets. This report was presented on July 15th, 2008, in the Auditorium of the Central Bank in Managua, Nicaragua, by Joseph Owen, Country Manager of the World Bank office in Nicaragua, who welcomed the participants and announced that this institution approved to donate $ 7 million to tackle the food crisis. Owen said that with these funds is also expected to fight against poverty levels in Nicaragua, affecting 64 percent of a population of 5.14 million, according to the latest national census made in 2005. Owen said that the most vulnerable social sectors will be those who will benefit from these resources, among which he mentioned the children, to avoid problems of malnutrition. The presentation and the discussion that took place in the Central Bank of Nicaragua, as part of the Dialogue for Development organized by the Information Center for Development (CID), has the dual purpose of dissemination of the report from the Nicaraguan society in general and promote discussion of poverty reduction and economic growth to support the identification of more effective policies and programs of Nicaragua for their economic and social development.  | Humberto Lopez, Chief Economist for Central America of the World Bank and Alberto Guevara, Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Nicaragua. |
In this dialogue, World Bank specialists with experience across the world gathered to disseminate best practices and experiences and awareness that economic conditions can be turned into opportunities for developing countries like Nicaragua, for growth and reduction of poverty. The agenda for that day took place in two parts:
First, the presentation of some of the relevant topic of study and then a panel discussion with representatives of Nicaraguan society. The panel was composed of: Alberto Guevara, Minister of Finance and Public Credit. Government of Nicaragua; José de Jesús Rojas, General Manager of the Central Bank of Nicaragua. Government of Nicaragua; Francisco Aguirre Sacasa, Head of Economic Commission, National Assembly; Jose Adan Aguerri, President of the Private Sector Chamber (COSEP) Cristiana Chamorro, Fundacion Violeta Barrios de Chamorro; Peter Bischof, Representative Swiss Cooperation for Central America (COSUDE) and member of the Budget Support Group; Humberto López, Chief Economist for Central America of the World Bank .
This event was attended by numerous participants from different sectors of civil society. Up
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